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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jerome realize one night when he is practicing?
(a) A train has stopped nearby.
(b) Two older boys are watching him.
(c) Bix is watching him.
(d) A stray dog is watching him.

2. What does Bix do the next week at school?
(a) He is boisterous and witty.
(b) He is absent from school that week.
(c) He speaks to no one.
(d) He is surly.

3. What surprises Jerome when he tells his mother about Bix?
(a) He cries.
(b) He realizes he's angry with Bix.
(c) He's sad that Bix seems to not like him that much.
(d) He's embarrassed that he needs his mother's advice.

4. What does Jerome ask the Home Economics teacher?
(a) Why they are making desserts when they haven't made a main course.
(b) If they can make peach pie instead of cherry pie.
(c) If they can make chocolate cake instead.
(d) Why they are making fake food?

5. What does Bix's stepfather say affected Bix's relationship with his mother?
(a) Bix's obstinacy.
(b) Bix's obsession with his mother being something she is not.
(c) Bix's refusal to give in ever.
(d) Bix's obsession with the truth.

6. Where is the new court where Jerome practices?
(a) In a predominantly white section of town.
(b) Near the city dump.
(c) Near some train tracks.
(d) Near a junkyard.

7. Why does Bix look for a new place to play basketball?
(a) The old place has been torn down.
(b) The old place is locked up.
(c) The old place is too far away.
(d) The old place has some rough-looking boys playing there.

8. Who wins the anonymous contest Miss Pimton sets up?
(a) It's a two-way tie.
(b) Bix and Jerome.
(c) It's a three-way tie.
(d) Mollie and Anne.

9. What does Jerome's mother say she wants to do before Jerome goes with Bix to the hospital?
(a) Meet Bix's mother.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Talk to Bix's stepfather.
(d) Meet Bix.

10. What do Jerome's brothers think of his cooking at home?
(a) They like what he is making.
(b) They think he cooks better than their mother.
(c) They do not say much.
(d) They do not believe home economics class is helping him as a cook.

11. What does Miss Pimton say about what they are going to make?
(a) It has much less sugar than the real thing.
(b) It is more nutritious than the real thing.
(c) It is cheaper than the real thing.
(d) It is less tasty than the real thing.

12. Who is at the basketball court when Jerome arrives for the challenge?
(a) Bix's stepfather.
(b) No one.
(c) Bix's mother and stepfather.
(d) Bix.

13. How long does Jerome work with Bix on the basketball court?
(a) About a year.
(b) About a week.
(c) About 6 weeks.
(d) About 6 months.

14. What is bounceball?
(a) A game elementary children play with a soccer ball.
(b) What Bix calls basketball.
(c) A pick-up basketball game where you must bounce the ball once for every step you take.
(d) A game elementary children play with a hoop that is only four feet off the ground.

15. How does Jerome feel about learning who his partner is?
(a) Angry.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Disappointed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jerome unable to restrain after a few minutes of hiding in the dark?

2. What does Jerome hear as he is approaching the court?

3. What is counting quietly as Jerome approaches the basketball court?

4. Where did Bix get the basketball he has with him?

5. Of what does Bix accuse Jerome?

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